Career Options: Photographer | Guide to Photo Careers

I found this article on the Mac On Campus website – very sage advice. If you’re interested in the competitive field of photography, networking and joining industry organizations should be your #1 plan. As an educator, I would add that interested students, photographers and faculty join the Society of Photographic Education (SPE). and of course [...]

Magnum Greats Inhabit Rochester, NY

I lived in Rochester NY, the home of Eastman Kodak, for three years from 1996-1999 while studying at The Rochester Institute of Technology. It was a challenging climate for me, moving directly from Southern California, and at the time, I thought it was also challenging to photograph there. Nothing about the town was very inspiring [...]

Summer Workshop: Photograph in Italy

Many of you have emailed me regarding my Photography In France trip which I am postponing to 2013 – but, my colleague Professori Jeff Curto is organizing two amazing workshops in Italy this June and has a few spaces left! If you’re looking for a summer photographic adventure, this could be it! Read More.

Photographs Not Taken: A Collection of Photographers’ Essays

Featuring contributions from over seventy photographers: Dave Anderson, Timothy Archibald, Roger Ballen, Thomas Bangsted, Juliana Beasley, Nina Berman, Elinor Carucci, Kelli Connell, Paul D’Amato, Tim Davis, KayLynn Deveney, Doug Dubois, Rian Dundon, Amy Elkins, Jim Goldberg, Emmet Gowin, Gregory Halpern, Tim Hetherington, Todd Hido, Rob Hornstra, Eirik Johnson, Chris Jordan, Nadav Kander, Ed Kashi, Misty Keasler, Lisa Kereszi, Erika Larsen, Shane Lavalette, Deana Lawson, Joshua Lutz, David Maisel, Mary Ellen Mark, Laura McPhee, Michael Meads, Andrew Moore, Richard Mosse, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Laurel Nakadate, Ed Panar, Christian Patterson, Andrew Phelps, Sylvia Plachy, Mark Power, Peter Riesett, Simon Roberts, Joseph Rodriguez, Stefan Ruiz, Matt Salacuse, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Aaron Schuman, Jamel Shabazz, Alec Soth, Amy Stein, Mark Steinmetz, Joni Sternbach, Hank Willis Thomas, Brian Ulrich, Peter Van Agtmael, Massimo Vitali, Hiroshi Watanabe, Alex Webb, Rebecca Norris Webb

Artist Spotlight: Doug Rickard, A New American Picture

Doug Rickard: A New American Picture, Presented in the exhibition HERE. Pier 24 Photography / May 23rd – December 16th Pier 24, the 28,000 square foot warehouse situated on the scenic San Francsico Bay with an amazing photography collection – has recently posted interviews with their artists. Here, Doug Rickard describes how he utilizes the [...]

Kickstarter Campaigns Help Realize Creative Projects

Help fund the project “The Color of Hay” The website and company Kickstarter is a new way to fund creative projects. Based on the idea of “crowdsourcing”, the model itself is relatively new however in today’s fast changing internet savvy world the website as already been widely spread and put good use. In a nutshell, [...]